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A woman volunteer decorating the doorways for Khmer New Year.

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A furnished office space located inside of the community center, completed in the spring of 2017.

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Watt Munisotaram upper sanctuary and shrine.

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The main campus area of the Watt Munisotaram with the temple and stupa.

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The two Buddhas in the upper sanctuary both are performing the Bhumisparsha mudra.

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One of the kyuaksa or Burmese alphabet inscriptions at the Kuthodaw Pagoda, Mandalay, Myanmar. The entire Tipitaka Pali canon is set on 729 marble slabs, and each stone is housed in a kyauksa gu or a small cave-like stupa. (unedited)

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View looking west from the Watt Munisotaram of the surrounding farmland.

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The group of statues refers to the story of Sujãtã, a daughter of a rich man, who prayed to the tree-spirit of the Bodhi tree to have her first child be a son.1 Sujãtã's prayer was fulfilled, and she sent her maid to the Bodhi tree to clean up the…

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Multicolored LED lights concentrically ring the high ceiling of the upper level of the stupa. The lights represent the state (or path to) enlightenment and Nirvana.